Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the borders of civilization, they encountered primitive Indians in long, swishing costumes of grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made...
Work v. Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and loll in hammocks. Japan is one source of newcomers who seem immune to the easy-living lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama...
...this morning's unscheduled breakfast, there will be no evening meal. Instead, the regular Friday afternoon tea will be substituted this week only, necessitating the elimination of fish as a second choice for Friday dinner, and the further change...
Lorin Hollander is a poised, redheaded 15-year-old who collects tropical fish, loves water-skiing and plays the piano with the aplomb of a seasoned virtuoso. Word about Lorin has been spreading in the musical world since the evening, three years ago, when he sat down with Manhattan's Little Orchestra Society as a last-minute substitute soloist and dashed off Ravel's tortuous Concerto in G Major as if he owned it. Last week, impassive as ever, Lorin appeared on the Telephone Hour (NBCTV) playing Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor and an excerpt...
...People seem to feel that there has been marked improvement in the way students have been operating their bicycles since the safety campaign began," Mrs. Fish commented...